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Research project on countering extremism in NATO militaries 14 April 2021
A team led by Dr. Yannick Veilleux-Lepage (Institute of Security and Global Affairs) and Joris Larik (Leiden University College The Hague) have secure...
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Marieke Liem discusses risk perception regarding terrorist threats in the Netherlands on Dutch NPO Radio 1. 12 December 2019
On Wednesday 11 December 2019, Marieke Liem, Associate Professor, appeared as a guest on the NPO Radio 1 podcast. The central topic of the podcast was...
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How to improve research on cybersecurity 05 June 2018
Cybercriminality and cybersecurity are hot topics, in the academic world as well as elsewhere. But there is room for improvement in this research, say...
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NATO boss: ‘The Netherlands needs to invest more in defence’ 20 April 2018
Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General of NATO, gave a guest lecture at Leiden University on 19 April. His message was clear: increased international ten...
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Academics explain the elections 22 March 2018
Why are the local parties so popular? Researchers at Leiden University gave their reaction the day after the elections of 21 March.
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Should we be scared of hacktivists? 22 March 2018
Marco Romagna is a PhD candidate who is currently researching hacktivism and hacktivists, online activists with hacking skills, a relatively new field...
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Conclusion from 3,442 terrorism studies: the research is improving 13 March 2018
Academic research on terrorism is getting better all the time. This is the conclusion of university lecturer Bart Schuurman after studying 3,442 artic...
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Learn about contemporary approaches to risk 09 January 2018
The brand-new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ‘Risk in Modern Society’ starts on Monday 29 January. This course was developed by the Centre for Safe...
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Bibi van den Berg appointed as Professor Cybersecurity Governance 19 October 2017
The Executive Board has decided to appoint Dr. Bibi van den Berg as Professor of Cybersecurity Governance within the Institute of Security and Global ...
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King visits The Hague Security Delta and the Cyber Security Academy 24 March 2017
On 23 March 2017, his Majesty King Willem-Alexander visited The Hague Security Delta: a network in which businesses, knowledge institutions and govern...
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Europe's first bachelor's programme in security issues 23 February 2017
September 2017 will see the start of the new English-language bachelor's programme in Security Studies in The Hague, developed by the Institute of Sec...
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Unique insight into origin of Hofstad group 24 January 2017
The Hofstad group is known mainly because of Mohammed B., the murderer of Theo van Gogh. PhD candidate Bart Schuurman examined this Dutch jihadist gr...